In 1953 Donaldo Macedo, a scholar and follower of the Brazilian educator Paulo Freine, coined the phrase "literacy for stupidifaction" to describe the inability of many Americans to read the word and the world critically. This incapacity makes people susceptible to political manipulation through big lies. No amount of evidence is likely to shift their reading of the world." Sipho Seepe from the South African Mail & Guardian

Despite this, GlobalSpin will persist...

"Upon assuming office, the Kostunica government-under IMF instructions-has deregulated the prices of basic consumer goods and frozen the wages of working people. A new labor law setting the minimum wage at 35 per cent of the average wage was rubber-stamped by the Yugoslav parliament. In oterh words, with rising prices coupled with the de-indexation of wages ordered by the IMF, the new legislation allows the real minimum wage to slide to abysmally low levels." Michel Chossudovsky in Economic Terrorism.

"Israel maintains that is is engaged in an 'armed conflict short of war", a definition that is used to justify suspending such mandatory investigations.

In reality, many of the hundreds of Palestinians killed by Israeli troops were unarmed.

Phil Reeves in The Independent, Israeli death squad defies call for truce.

"Being on the list (US State Department's list of terrorist states) has its consequences. The main one is that the U.S. binds itself to refuse economic aid to any such state. This includes opposing their membership of international financial institutions (IFIs) such as the World Bank or International Monetary fund, which might lend them money. Aidan Foster-Carter in Pyongyang and Washington: the real agenda in Asian Times

"Perhaps most revealing is the report's description of a CIA covert operation cynically named "Operation Roots." It is aimed at sowing ethnic divisions in Yugoslavia to encourage its breakup.

....The final objective of "Roots" according to this report, "is the separation of Kosovo, with the aim of it becoming part of Albania; the separation of Montenegro, as the last means of access to the Mediterranean; and the searation of the Vojvodina, which produces most of the food for Yugoslavia. This would lead to the total collpase of Yugoslavia as a viable independent state." Gary Wilson in "Who's the KLA? German secret document reveals secret CIA role.

"Russian authorities haave literally buried evidence of extra-judicial executions in Chechnya." Human Rights Watch said in a press statement in The Russia Journal

"The violence of ETA, the Basque separatist group, was reparid in kind by a state-sponsored terrorist group called the GAL, whose initials stood for the Antiterrorist Liberation Groups. GAL also stood for kidnapping, bombing cafes, and torturing and murduring 27 people. Paddy Woodworth in Dirty War, Clean Hands: ETA, the GAL,and Spanish democracy.

"The inclusion of Israeli allegations in this official U.S. document ( The State Department's annual terrorism report )"is totally inappropriate and unnecessary since it raises serious doubts about the credibility and independence of the report throughout the region," Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) President Hala Maksoud wrote in a letter to Secretary Powell. She added, "The situation is further exacerbated by the fact that the report did not include Palestinian complaints about 'excessive and disportionate' Israeli attacks on innocent Palestinian civilians, even though such complaints were reiterated by the United NAtions Security Council, the UN Human Rights Commission, Amnesty International and even State Department officials." Thomas Gorguissian, Define Terrorism in Al-Ahram